Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? I have usedboth 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption. I use ping-f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these doquite a bit of extra skb creation as an IPSec header sometimes does notfit in the original skb. No problems yet.My gut tells me to blame the NIC driver of the NIC itself.